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| kathryn |
Posted - 03/18/2005 : 20:30:33
In my angst-filled teen years, I loved Lorca (Amparo, ¡qué sola
estás en tu casa vestida de blanco! Sigh....). But I worshipped
Sylvia Plath. In college, I moved on to the equally depressing
Anne Sexton. Then I had my Adrienne Rich stage. A couple of
years ago, I shocked myself by embracing Ted Hughes (well,
figuratively). Now I'm without a poet with whom I am obsessed.
And you?
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| VoVat |
Posted - 03/19/2005 : 20:57:39
Ever read Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories? They're not poems, but they're the first thing I think of when I see his name.
"Reunion? Shit union!" |
| IceCream |
Posted - 03/19/2005 : 20:35:33
Carl Sandburg
Steven Crane |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 03/19/2005 : 20:30:02
ok i couldn't find my emily d book... it is so small and tiny and gets lost.
Here's Lorca's "Romance de la Luna, Luna"
La luna vino a la fragua
con su polision de nardos
El nino la esta mirando
En el aire convovido
mueve la luna sus brazos
y ensena, lubrica y pura,
sus senos de dur estano.
--Huye, luna, luna, luna.
Si vinieran los gitanos.
harian con tu corizon
collares y anillos blancos.
--Nino, dejame que baile.
Cuando vengan los gitanos,
le encontraran sobre el yunque
con los ojillos cerrados.
-- Huye, luna, luna, luna,
--Nino, dejame, no pises
mi blancor almidondo.
El jinete se acercaba
tocando el tambor del llano.
Dentro de la fragua el nino
tiene los ojos cerrados.
Por el olvidar venian,
bronce y sueno, los gitanos.
Las cabezas levantadas
y los ojos entornados.
Como canta la zumaya,
ay, como canta en el arbol
Por el cielo va la luna
con un nino de la mano.
Dentro de la fragua lloran,
dando gritos, los gitanos.
El aire la vela, vela.
El aire la esta velando. |
| kathryn |
Posted - 03/19/2005 : 20:11:30
Busted! I was trying to get you to 2,000 posts, missie!
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Catholics |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 03/19/2005 : 19:52:43
I mentioned emily d ya gotta love her poetry and then the fact that she wore all black or all white for so long. |
| kathryn |
Posted - 03/19/2005 : 19:26:29
No mention of Emily Dickinson. That surprises me.
floop: I like Morrisson's mescaline-fueled ramblings. You know, killers waking up and dawn, the boy's fragile eggshell mind, the end, beautiful friend, the end... all that crap.
Xavi: Y a mi me gusta Machado tambien
pero gustas tu a unas chicas mas.
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Catholics |
| NimrodsSon |
Posted - 03/19/2005 : 18:31:28
I don't read all that much poetry, but I'm particularly fond of Wordsworth, Blake, and bits and pieces of Shakespeare.
¡Viva los Católicos! http://adrianfoster.dmusic.com/ |
| fumanbru |
Posted - 03/19/2005 : 15:34:31
dr. seuss.
"I joined the Cult of Frank/ and I got a free t-shirt with this dude on it." |
| VoVat |
Posted - 03/19/2005 : 14:56:41
So THAT'S what that's from! I thought the picture looked familiar.
"Reunion? Shit union!" |
| ObfuscateByWill |
Posted - 03/19/2005 : 14:21:54
"...so great was his fright that his waistcoat turned white" ???
 Take a bite of the chocolate coffin. |
| VoVat |
Posted - 03/19/2005 : 12:34:11
I'm generally not into poetry. I'm quite fond of "The Hunting of the Snark," though.
"Reunion? Shit union!" |
| ObfuscateByWill |
Posted - 03/19/2005 : 12:25:48
William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot, and ee cummings.
Haven't read much poetry in the past few years.
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Haven't read much of anything in the past few years.
Take a bite of the chocolate coffin. |
| floop |
Posted - 03/19/2005 : 12:07:28
this will sound cheesy but when i was in high school i liked Jim Morrison's poetry.
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee! |
| whoreatthedoor |
Posted - 03/19/2005 : 11:32:44
HAHAHA!!! that's funny K.
Ok, some Machado for you:
Este amor que quiere ser
acaso pronto será;
pero ¿cuándo ha de volver
lo que acaba de pasar?
Hoy dista mucho de ayer.
¡Ayer es Nunca jamás!
The violet, the lily and the pink but those I refused all three |
| kathryn |
Posted - 03/19/2005 : 10:23:23
Walt Whitman rocks. I was sooo annoyed when he
got mixed up in the Lewinski/Clinton blowjob thingie.
(Clinton gave her a book of his poetry. Or maybe she
gave it to him. Whatev.)
I have an excerpt of Leaves of Grass on my fridge
(next to pix of Morrissey and Paul Simonon and Homer
Simpson):
"Love the earth and sun and all the animals, despise
riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid
and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants,
argue not concedrning god, have patience and indulence toward
the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to
any man or number of men ... read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church ....dismiss whatever insults your
own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great peom and have
the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of
its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in
every motion and join of your body."
P.S. To Whore: I know a hot sexy Spaniard who is not gay.
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Catholics |
| Newo |
Posted - 03/19/2005 : 08:41:06
I write as I can in the rhythm of interminable weeks
monday: empty storehouses a rat became the unit of currency
tuesday: the mayor murdered by unknown assailants
wednesday: negotiations for a cease-fire the enemy has imprisoned our messengers
we don't know where they are held that is the place of torture
thursday: after a stormy meeting a majority of voices rejected
the motion of the spice merchants for unconditional surrender
friday: the beginning of the plague saturday: our invincible defender
N.N. committed suicide sunday: no more water we drove back
an attack at the eastern gate called the Gate of the Alliance
Zbigniew Herbert
--
"Here love," brakes on a high squeak, "it´s not backstage at the old Windmill or something, you know." |
| Newo |
Posted - 03/19/2005 : 08:37:35
Me. And Bukowski and the guy who wrote about the rat becoming the unit of currency. Zbgnesomething.
--
"Here love," brakes on a high squeak, "it´s not backstage at the old Windmill or something, you know." |
| Surfer Rosa |
Posted - 03/19/2005 : 06:56:04
ee cummings
I still love Lorca my angst filled years are far from over.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 03/19/2005 : 03:21:05
I wish I had a Sylvia Plath
Busted tooth and a smile
And cigarette ashes in her drink
The kind that goes out and then sleeps for a week
The kind that goes out on her
To give me a reason, for well, I dunno
And maybe she'd take me to France
Or maybe to Spain and she'd ask me to dance
In a mansion on the top of a hill
She'd ash on the carpets
And slip me a pill
Then she'd get pretty loaded on gin
And maybe she'd give me a bath
How I wish I had a Sylvia Plath
And she and I would sleep on a boat
And swim in the sea without clothes
With rain falling fast on the sea
While she was swimming away, she'd be winking at me
Telling me it would all be okay
Out on the horizon and fading away
And I'd swim to the boat and I'd laugh
I gotta get me a Sylvia Plath
And maybe she'd take me to France
Or maybe to Spain and she'd ask me to dance
In a mansion on the top of a hill
She'd ash on the carpets
And slip me a pill
Then she'd get pretty loaded on gin
And maybe she'd give me a bath
How I wish I had a Sylvia Plath
I wish I had a Sylvia Plath
Hansel and Gretel have formed a band, .....And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Breadcrumbs!!!
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| whoreatthedoor |
Posted - 03/19/2005 : 02:57:20
I dig Yeats. But it could only be my irish obsession.
I've never been to Ireland.
Why all spanish famous males are gay???
No, Antonio Banderas isn't. He just sucks.
Wait! this isn't the "topics you were going to start but didn't" thread.
"Amparo, pá casa!!!"
The violet, the lily and the pink but those I refused all three |
| offerw |
Posted - 03/19/2005 : 01:36:04
Allen Ginsberg's poems made a huge impression on me in my late teens. I haven't really gotten into another poet since then but Whitman and WH Auden have written some poems I love. A friend of mine is extremely fond of Mark Doty and in his Atlantic collection there are some lovely poems.
wilhelm |
| glacial906 |
Posted - 03/19/2005 : 00:54:17
May be kind of cliche, but I like Walt Whitman. (Especially "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry." That poem is so strange to me; it forms a connection that I just think is really cool.)
Overall I'm not much of a poetry buff, though.
The Drummer from Def Leppard's Only Got One Arm. |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 03/18/2005 : 21:50:47
gosh... that's really hard.
so many spanish/latin poets... i really love lorca too.
I guess in some way emily dickenson, blake, ts elliot, ginsburg (got a signed book from him), ee cummings, frank black :), and alice walker (met her!) |
